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TRAINING  IN  AGRICULTURE 


Education  for  the  Farmer  as  it  is  given  at  the  New 
Hampshire  College  of  Agriculture  and  the 
Mechanic  Arts.  A description  of 
what  Agricultural  Educa- 
tion means  and  the  practical  and  scientific  studies 


The  aim  of  the  agricultural  courses 
Aims  and  Scope  the  New  Hampshire  College  of 
of  the  Courses  Agriculture  and  the  Mechanic  Arts, 
n Agricultu  e is  to  help  along  the  higher  education 
of  the  rural  people  and  their  eleva- 
tion, in  both  a business  and  a social  way.  To  this  end  it 
is  believed  that  every  young  farmer  needs  a double  edu- 
cation : one  that  is  practical,  to  fit  him  for  his  profession  ; 
another  that  is  cultural,  to  fit  him  to  live.  The  first  to 
provide  the  most  efficient  methods  for  his  support;  and 
the  second  to  train  and  develop  his  mind  for  the  best  and 
highest  living.  In  every  sense  these  courses  of  the  col- 
lege seek  to  provide  an  education  which  will  best  serve 
the  needs  of  a rural  people  living  in  a cultured  nation, 
and  under  a free  government. 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  COLLEGE  CIRCULAR,  NO.  20,  JULY,  3899. 
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In  order  to  meet  the  wants  of  every  young  man  of  the 
state  who  desires  instruction  in  agriculture,  the  college 
offers  four  distinct  courses  : the  four  years’  course  aims 
to  give  a training  that  is  thoroughly  practical  as  well  as 
scientific  in  agriculture  and  its  various  branches,  such 
as  dairying  and  horticulture.  The  strictly  technical 
portion  constitutes  about  one  third  of  the  course.  Of 
the  remaining  two  thirds  of  the  course,  more  than  one 
half  is  prescribed  in  the  sciences.  This  is  done  for  the 
training  and  information  they  give,  and  to  fortify  the 
technical  work  of  the  course.  Because  of  this,  and 
because  the  subject-matter  and  the  methods  of  the  tech- 
nical portion  lie  so  fully  within  the  domain  of  science, 
the  course  is  essentially  scientific  rather  than  literary, 
and  it  is  believed  the  sciences  afford  a favorable  field  for 
the  development  of  the  higher  faculties  of  the  mind. 
Yet  the  college  is  mindful  of  the  fundamental  character 
of  history,  literature,  philosophy,  and  ethics,  and  politi- 
cal science  as  training  studies,  and  reasonable  attention 
to  these  subjects  is  required. 

The  two  years’  course  is  designed  to  meet  the  needs 
of  those  who  are  unable  to  take  the  longer  course.  It  is 
specially  devoted  to  the  study  of  practical  agriculture 
and  horticulture  and  their  various  branches,  and  the 
natural  sciences  which  are  so  closely  related  to  success- 
ful farming. 

The  ten  weeks’  winter  course  in  agriculture  is  estab- 
lished to  meet  the  wants  of  those  who  can  spend  only  the 
winter  term  at  the  college.  The  important  and  practical 
subjects  of  agriculture  and  horticulture  receive  principal 
attention. 

The  ten  weeks’  dairy  course  is  a course  in  practical 
butter-making,  in  accordance  with  the  most  approved 
methods  of  the  modern  creamery. 


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Instruction  is  by  laboratory  work,  sup- 
Methods  of  plemented  by  text-books,  lectures,  and 
Instruction  reference  readings,  which  are  almost  con- 
and  stantly  assigned  from  standard  volumes 
Equipment  and  periodicals.  Laboratory  methods  of 
study  are  peculiarly  suited  to  the  subjects 
of  these  courses  and  the  needs  of  the  student,  and  a 
liberal  equipment  is  being  provided  for  student  use  and 
for  purpose  of  illustration. 

The  equipment  of  the  technical  work  of  the  course  is 
rapidly  increasing.  The  department  of  agriculture  has 
fitted  up  laboratories  for  investigation  in  soil  physics 
and  in  the  mechanical  analysis  of  soils.  The  dairy 
department  is  equipped  with  a modern  creamery  for 
pasteurizing,  separating,  creaming  and  churning,  and 
for  investigation  in  dairy  bacteriology. 

The  college  owns  five  Percheron  horses,  herds  of 
Jersey,  Guernsey,  and  Ayrshire  cattle,  and  grades  of 
several  other  breeds,  and  Berkshire  and  Chester  White 
swine,  which  are  available  for  illustration  and  practice 
in  expert  judging. 

The  department  makes  free  use  of  the  fields,  orchards, 
gardens,  in  which  the  Agricultural  Experiment  Station 
conducts  experiments  in  methods  of  culture,  effects  of 
several  practices  upon  yield  and  upon  fertility,  varieties 
of  fruit,  vegetables,  and  forage  crops.  The  methods 
employed  and  the  results  obtained  are  freely  used  for 
instruction.  This  is  most  readily  accomplished,  be- 
cause the  instructors  are  also  in  charge  of  the  exper- 
iments. 

In  work  other  than  purely  technical,  the  agricultural 
student  meets  the  same  instructors  and  enjoys  the  same 
privileges  as  other  students  of  the  college,  and  in  all 
departments  the  laboratory  method  is  freely  employed, 

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in  which  the  student  uses  apparatus  with  his  own  hands, 
and  consults  the  literature  of  the  subject  at  every  step. 

The  first  term  this  year  begins  September 
Terms  and  1899,  and  closes  December  20.  The 
Vacation  second  term  begins  January  11,  1900,  and 
and  closes  March  21,  1900.  The  winter  term 
Self-support  m agriculture  begins  January  11,  1900. 

The  course  in  dairying  begins  at  the  same 
time,  although  students  in  dairying  can  enter  at  any  time, 
as  the  creamery  is  in  operation  during  the  whole  year. 

There  is  a large  amount  of  work  on  the  college  farm, 
Experiment  Station,  campus  and  the  gardens,  orchards, 
greenhouses,  etc.,  which  is  done  by  students,  and  for 
which  they  are  paid  current  prices  for  such  labor.  By 
this  means,  with  what  can  be  earned  during  the  summer 
vacation,  it  is  possible  to  defray  all  the  necessary  college, 
expenses.  Work,  however,  is  not  guaranteed  to  any. 

Twenty-eight  Conant  Scholarships  (each 
Conant  Free  paying  the  sixty  dollars  for  tuition  and 
Scholarships  fifteen  dollars  for  incidentals  and  twenty- 
in  five  dollars  besides  which  goes  to  the 

Agriculture  holder),  are  given  to  students  in  agri- 
culture. Under  the  present  arrange- 
ment, two  students  in  the  four  years’  course  are  ap- 
pointed by  the  officers  of  each  Pomona  grange  in  the 
state.  Under  the  same  arrangement  the  same  officers 
are  privileged  to  appoint  two  students  annually  to  the 
two  years’  course  with  free  tuition. 


GENERAL  PLAN  OF  THE  INSTRUCTION 


The  student  taking  the  regular  course  in  agriculture 
enters  the  Freshman  year  in  the  same  studies  and  classes 
with  all  the  other  students  of  the  college.  His  instruc- 
tion consists  of  advanced  mathematics,  rhetoric,  French, 


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etc.,  for  fundamental  and  cultural  value,  and  elementary 
work  in  manual  training,  drawing,  botany,  physics,  and 
surveying. 

The  new  student,  in  beginning  his  Fresh- 
Drawing  man  year,  takes  up  at  once  the  study  of 
drawing.  Not  with  the  idea  of  receiving 
an  44  accomplishment”  or  learning  how  to  make  44  pretty 
things,”  but  because  it  broadens  and  refines  and  leads 
him  to  a keener  appreciation  of  the  beautiful  in  Nature. 
Besides,  a knowledge  of  the  elements  of  drawing  in  its 
theory,  practice,  and  history,  makes  art  more  applicable 
in  matters  of  everyday  life. 

Drawing  is  introduced  early  in  the  course  because  it 
trains  the  eye  and  hand  to  act  in  unison  and  prepares 
the  student  for  his  work  in  botany,  entomology,  and 
farm  equipment. 

The  agricultural  student  also  begins  work 
Shopwork  in  the  shop  in  the  fall  term  of  his  Freshman 
year,  and  devotes  two  full  terms,  or  nearly 
two  hundred  hours,  to  this  work.  The  shop  practice  is 
of  the  nature  of  laboratory 
work,  and  relates  to  the  pri- 
mary operations  of  joinery, 
such  as  exercises  in  the  use 
of  tools,  putting  tools  in  or- 
der, and  the  construction  of  a 
series  of  exercises  in  carpen- 
try, wood  turning,  and  pat- 
tern making,  including  saw- 
ing, planing,  mortising,  splic- 
ing, framing,  and  other  work  involving  the  use  of  ordi- 
nary carpenter  tools  ; also  work  in  blacksmithing,  and 
the  forging  and  welding  of  iron  and  steel,  and  other 
work  that  is  of  use  and  value  to  the  operator  on  the  farm. 

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The  Freshman,  in  the  spring  term,  takes 
Surveying,  UP  three  new  subjects  that  deal  directly 


with  his  work  in  agriculture  in  his  Sopho- 
more year.  These  are  surveying,  botany, 
and  physics.  The  class-room  work  in  sur- 
veying and  agricultural  engineering  is  sup- 


plemented by  practical  exercises  in  platting,  including 
compass,  transit  and  plane-table  and  level  work.  The 
student  receives  complete  instruction  for  making  farm 
surveys  for  area  and  drainage,  etc.  An  advanced 
course  is  also  given,  which  treats  principally  of  systems 
of  drainage,  construction  and  improvement  of  highways 
and  ordinary  highway  bridges. 

Inasmuch  as  the  general  laws  of  mechanics,  acoustics, 
heat,  and  electricity  are  so  important  to  the  farmer,  four 
terms  are  devoted  to  physics.  The  work  consists  of 
lectures  and  recitations,  supplemented  by  experimental 


work  in  the  lab- 
oratory. The 
same  methods 
are  employed 
in  teaching  bot- 
any. The  in- 
struction begins 


with  lectures  and  laboratory  study  of  the  minute  struc- 
ture and  physiology  of  plants  with  special  reference  to 
the  higher  forms,  and  continues  through  economic  and 
physiological  botany  and  a study  of  some  of  the  more 
important  fungous  diseases  of  cultivated  plants  and  the 
means  of  preventing  their  injuries. 

The  study  of  this  science  is  entered  upon 
Chemistry  in  the  first  term  of  the  Sophomore  year, 
and  continues  through  the  Junior  year. 
The  elementary  chemistry  consists  of  lectures  and  chem- 


ical  manipulations.  The  lectures  are  illustrated  by 
appropriate  experiments,  and  em- 
brace the  history  of  chemistry  and 
laws  of  chemical  combination  ; el- 
ementary substances,  their  histo- 
ry, geographical  distribution,  prop- 
erties, combinations,  and  techni- 
cal uses  ; and  the  application  of 
chemistry  to  agriculture  and  the 
arts  and  manufacture.  Following 
this  are  courses  in  organic  chem- 
istry, and  qualitative  and  quanti- 
tative analysis  of  various  products 
in  their  relation  to  agriculture. 

The  Sophomore  in  agriculture  also  takes 
Zoology,  up  work  in  biological  science,  which  ex- 
Entomology,  tends  into  the  Junior  year.  The  course 
Ornithology  opens  with  a general  introduction  to  the 
study  of  animal  life,  and  leads  up  to  the 
nature  and  processes  of  animal  life.  En- 
tomology is  taken  up  in  the  spring  term 
with  a review  of  the 
classification,  structural 
characters,  and  biolog- 
ical relations  of  insects, 
with  a special  study  of 
those  injurious  to  culti- 
vated crops  and  domes- 
tic animals,  and  of  the 
means  of  preventing  their 
injuries.  Lectures  on 
the  relations  of  birds  to  agriculture  and  their  relation 
to  each  other  and  to  other  organisms  receive  careful 
attention  from  the  Junior. 


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The  student  also  during  his  course  receives  instruction 
in  Military  Science  and  Tactics,  French,  German,  Eng- 
glish  Language  and  Literature,  Geolog)' , History,  Polit- 
ical Science,  Mathematics,  Meteorology,  Philosophy 
and  Ethics,  etc. 

TECHNICAL  INSTRUCTION  IN  AGRICULTURE  AND  HORTI- 
CULTURE 

Agricultural  education  consists  of  the  practical  appli- 
cation of  these  various  sciences  to  the  processes  and 
practices  relating  to  the  arts  of  agriculture  and  horti- 
culture. 

The  courses  are  designed  primarily  to  afford  instruction 
along  the  lines  that  will  be  of  particular  value  to  persons 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits.  As  will  be  seen  from 
these  pages  it  has  been  greatly  strengthened  along  the 
technical  side,  and  with  the  increased  time  devoted  to 
the  science  and  art  of  agriculture  and  horticulture,  the 
students  graduating  from  this  course  will  be  even  better 
prepared  to  engage  in  those  professions  than  those  of 
previous  classes. 

With  the  great  progress  that  has  been  made  in  agri- 
cultural and  horticultural  practice,  a wide  field  has  been 
opened  for  instruction  in  those  lines.  Not  only  are  we 
able  to  avail  ourselves  of  the  knowledge  of  the  methods 
of  the  successful  farmers  and  fruit  growers,  but  we  can 
profit  by  the  results  obtained  by  the  experiment  stations 
of  this  and  other  states.  Thus  the  instruction  in  agri- 
culture and  horticulture  gives  to  the  student  a knowl- 
edge of  the  latest  and  best  methods,  and  the  general  sci- 
entific training  that  he  receives  will  enable  him  the  bet- 
ter to  put  them  into  practice. 

In  rearranging  the  course  the  sciences  have  in  most 
cases  received  increased  attention.  They  are  taught 

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with  special  application  to  the  crops  and  animals  of  the 
farm,  and  without  the  knowledge  they  afford  it  will  be 
impossible  for  any  one  to  farm  successfully. 

When  the  student  reaches  his  Sophomore 
Soil  Physics  year  he  begins  his  work  in  agriculture 
and  and  horticulture  proper.  He  takes  up  the 

Fertilizers  study  of  Soil  Physics  and  studies  the  soil. 

He  is  taught  to  analyze  the  soil ; he  stud- 
ies the  physical  properties  and  finds  the  number  and 
the  size  of  the  grains  in  the  soil.  He  is  now  taught  the 
use  of  fertilizers  and  how  to  calculate  their  value,  and 


the  manner  and  methods  of  irrigation  and  drainage  and 
of  tillage,  and  the  effect  and  use  of  various  farm  imple- 
ments upon  such  processes.  He  studies  the  influence  of 
fertilizers  on  the  amount,  character,  and  composition  of 
crops  ; effects  of  particular  crops  upon  fertility  and  upon 
each  when  grown  in  succession  or  together  ; economic 
sources  of  the  elements  of  fertility  ; and  fertilizers  and 
manures,  their  valuation  and  use  under  extensive  and 
intensive  methods. 


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During  the  course  practical  ex- 
ercises in  testing  the  physical 
properties  of  soils,  determining 
the  relation  of  soils  to  heat,  moist- 
ure, air,  fertilizers,  and  making 
mechanical  analyses,  are  per- 
formed. 

In  the  same  year 
Farm  and  following  the 

Equipment  course  in  Stock 

Feeding  and  Hygi- 
ene, appears  the  course  in  Farm 
Equipment,  which  consists  of  lec- 
tures and  recitations  upon  the  se- 
lecting, planning,  and  equipping 
farms ; planning  and  erecting  farm  buildings  ; farm 
vehicles  and  machinery  ; power,  water,  and  drainage  ; 
and  practical  exercises  in  drawing  plans  of  farms  and 
farm  buildings ; leveling  and  laying  drains  ; dynamo- 
meter tests  of  wagons  and  farm  implements,  etc. 

This  course  is  required  in  the  Junior 
Farm  Crops  year  and  consists  of  lectures  and  recita- 
tions upon  the  history,  production,  mar- 
keting, and  harvesting  of  farm  crops  ; practical  exer- 
cises with  grown  and  dried  specimens  of  farm  crops, 
including  grasses,  clovers,  and  other  forage  crops.  In 
connection  with  this  the  student  studies  the  theory  and 
science  of  soil  preparation,  methods  of  seeding  and  till- 
age of  the  various  farm  crops  ; also  the  planning  of  the 
farm  work,  including  the  relation  between  the  number 
of  live-stock  and  the  size  of  the  farm  ; programme  of 
the  work  for  the  season  and  the  management  of  farm 
help. 


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During  the  Sophomore  year  and 
Stock  Judging  again  during  the  Senior  year  the 
young  men  spend  one  afternoon  each 
week  in  the  college  barns  or  the  barns  of  the  leading 
breeders  of  the  state  in  learning  the  characteristics  of 
the  forms  of  the  prominent  breeds  of  horses,  cattle, 
sheep,  and  swine.  They  examine  the  animals,  score 
card  in  hand,  until  they  are  able  to  discriminate  accur- 
ately between  good  and  poor  animals  of  the  same  breed. 
They  learn  how  to  pick  out  good  cows  for  the  dairy  or 
for  beef ; to  select  a good  roadster  or  a flock  of  lambs 


for  winter  feeding.  When  the  eye  and  judgment  have 
been  thoroughly  trained,  the  student  may  lay  aside  the 
score  card  and  form  his  opinion  without  its  immediate 
aid.  There  is  great  need  of  better  judges  of  live  stock. 

The  wants  of  the  practical  farmer  are  kept  clearly  in 
mind  and  the  trend  of  the  instruction  is  to  make  the  stu- 
dents thoroughly  familiar  with  the  appearance  of  good 
specimens  of  the  various  breeds  and  at  the  same  time  to 
make  them  competent  to  select  good  stock  or  to  sell 
them  without  being  imposed  upon  by  unscrupulous 
dealers. 

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This  course  follows  in  the  winter 
Stock  Feeding  term  after  a knowledge  of  Chemistry 
has  been  obtained,  for  this  is  neces- 
sary to  a clear  understanding  of  the  principles  of  stock 
feeding.  The  work  consists  of  lectures  and  text-book 
work  on  the  principles  of  feeding  and  foods  and  nutri- 
tion, supplemented  with  practical  work  at  the  barn,  so 
that  the  young  man  can  come  in  immediate  contact  with 
the  feeding  materials  that  should  find  place  in  every 
stock  or  dairy  barn  and  learn  how  to  combine  and  use 
them.  The  functional  activities  of  the  animal  body  are 
first  considered  and  then  the  foods,  in  affording  the 
materials  for  these  activities,  whether  in  construction  of 
body  tissues  or  of  animal  products,  as  meat,  milk,  etc.  ; 
second,  dynamically,  as  supplying  the  potential  energy 
for  these  processes,  and  for  labor,  speed,  etc.  A study 
is  also  made  of  the  development  of  the  animal  after  birth 
and  of  the  phenomena  of  animal  nutrition  from  the  eco- 
nomic standpoint,  in  which  the  animal  activity  is  consid- 
ered as  an  agent  for  transformation  of  energy  and  the 
resultant  product  as  a source  of  profit. 

During  this  course  the  student  is  taught 
Breeds  and  the  principles  of  breeding  and  mating 
Breeding  animals,  and  is  taught  to  understand  and 
properly  interpret  pedigrees.  He  is 
taught  the  origin  of  the  breeds  of  domestic  animals  and 
their  distinguishing  characteristics  ; adaptation  of  breeds 
for  particular  purposes  and  their  value  for  grading, 
accompanied  by  critical  study  and  practice  in  the  art  of 
judging  both  as  to  breed  type  and  as  to  constitution  and 
individual  merit ; also  the  care  and  management  of  the 
live-stock  of  the  farm  as  to  housing  and  feed,  particu- 
larly directed  to  the  economic  sources  of  feeding  stuffs, 
their  equivalency,  and  suitable  preparation. 


Instruction  in  dairying  is  given  to  all  stu- 
Dairying  dents  in  the  agricultural  course.  Methods 
of  securing  cleanliness  in  all  dairy  opera- 
tions, of  properly  car- 
ing for  milk,  of  rip- 
ening cream,  separa- 
ting, churning,  and 
manipulating  the  but- 
ter, are  taught.  The 
dairy-room  is  equip- 
ped with  creamers, 
separators,  cream  rip- 
ening vats,  churns, 
and  workers,  with 
the  use  of  which  the 
young  men  become  acquainted  by  daily  exercise. 

The  closing  work  in  the  Sen- 
History  of  Agriculture  ior  year  is  a study  of  the  his- 
and  tory  of  agriculture  and  the 

Rural  Economics  business  side  of  farming.  The 
present  agricultural  methods 
in  various  countries,  the  cost  and  relative  profits  of  the 
various  farm  operations  and  systems,  are  taught. 

HORTICULTURE 

Like  the  technical  instruction  in  agriculture,  the  work 
in  horticulture  begins  with  the  Sophomore  year  and 
extends  through  the  Junior  and  Senior  years.  In  the 
required  work  an  attempt  is  made  to  consider  in  a prac- 
tical manner  the  three  divisions  of  horticulture  that  will 
be  of  most  use  to  the  general  farmer — vegetable  garden- 
ing, fruit  growing,  and  landscape  gardening. 


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The  subjects  treated  include  the  location 
Vegetable  and  soil,  manures  and  fertilizers,  tools  and 
Gardening  appliances,  tillage,  drainage,  irrigation  and 
similar  topics  relating  to  the  handling  of 
soil  and  crops  both  in  kitchen  and  market  gardening, 
together  with  a consideration  of  the  various  vegetable 
crops  in  turn,  in  their  special  requirements,  including 
the  methods  of  growing  the  plants  and  harvesting  and 
marketing  the  product. 


In  this  study  the  young  men  are  taught  the 
Fruit  origin  and  history  of  the  various  fruits  ; also 
Culture  the  methods  by  which  they  are  propagated, 
grafted,  budded,  laid,  and  the  various  kinds 
of  cuttings.  All  the  details  of  nursery  work  are  ex- 
plained, and  the  philosophy  and  art  of  pruning  are 
treated  at  considerable  length. 


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As  laboratory  work  in  this  study,  all  the  students  are 
given  actual  practice  in  the  various  operations  of  propa- 
gating, planting,  pruning,  and  training. 

These  three  courses  are  con- 
Floriculture,  Greenhouse  sidered  in  the  instruction 

Construction,  and  both  from  the  commercial 

Landscape  Gardening  and  the  amateur  Point  of 

view.  All  the  principal 

crops  of  the  florist,  such  as  roses,  violets,  carnations, 
and  chrysanthemums  are  discussed,  and  the  handling  of 
plants  in  the  flower  garden  and  window  also  receive 
attention.  The  construction  of  greenhouses  for  the  dif- 
ferent crops  is  also  considered. 


Landscape  gardening  is  considered  as  a fine  art,  and 
a practical  one,  and  its  study  is  introduced  by  a discus- 
sion of  the  principles  of  art  in  general.  These  princi- 
ples are  then  applied  in  the  decoration  of  home  grounds. 
The  methods  of  laying  out  grounds,  locating  walks, 
drives,  trees,  and  shrubbery  receive  particular  attention, 
as  does  the  adaptation  of  the  different  varieties  of  trees, 
shrubs,  and  climbers  to  use  in  this  climate.  All  this  is 
supplemented  with  practical  and  laboratory  work. 


The  student  in  the  four  years’ 
Instruction  in  the  course  devotes  about  one  third  of 
Different  Courses  bis  time  to  technical  agriculture 
in  Agriculture  and  horticulture,  and  the  student  in 
the  two  years’  course  devotes  over 
one  half  of  his  time  to  the  same  subjects.  Both  cover, 
practically,  the  same  ground  in  the  technical  work,  but 
the  former  gets  the  better  and  more  complete  training 
because  of  his  better  preparation  and  equipment. 

We  recommend  in  all  cases  for  the  student  to  pursue 
the  regular  four  years’  course,  when  practical.  But,  if 
his  course  must  be  limited  because  of  time  or  money,  we 


should  recommend,  then,  the  two  years’  course,  or  even 
the  winter  course. 

It  is  the  sincere  aim  of  the  trustees  and  faculty  to 
reach  and  help  as  many  of  the  young  farmers  of  the 
state  of  New  Hampshire  as  possible. 

For  lurther  information  concerning  any  of  the  courses 
in  agriculture,  or  any  points  regarding  work,  scholar- 
ships, or  any  other  questions,  address  the  professor  of 
agriculture,  Charles  William  Burkett,  Durham,  New 
Hampshire. 

For  general  information  regarding  the  college  address 
the  president,  Charles  S.  Murkland  ; or  the  secretary, 
Clarence  M.  Weed,  Durham,  New  Hampshire. 

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